White House pressure campaign has not found willing participants in all states – including Republican-led ones
The unprecedented push to create new congressional districts mid-decade is hitting roadblocks in the form of local elected officials from both parties.
Republicans face headwinds in the 2026 midterms: the party in power often loses ground in the election after a presidential win, and Trump’s agenda isn’t going over well. The 2025 off-year elections showed voters favoring Democrats at higher-than-expected margins. Trump wants to keep the House in Republican control by redrawing congressional maps to create more Republican-friendly districts. He first pressured Texas, which responded by drawing five additional red districts, which led California to advance a now-approved ballot measure to create five more Democrat-friendly districts to offset Texas’s maps.
But the White House pressure campaigns haven’t found willing participants in all GOP-held statehouses, or from the courts. Texas’s maps were blocked by a federal court, and the US supreme court will review that decision, which could deal a blow to the whole gambit. Voters in Missouri are trying to stop their state’s gerrymander via a referendum.
They would do it if they could. They’re only pushing back because they know a blue wave will decimate their control in every heavily gerrymandered state.
Overly optimistic. They’re trying to steal the election.